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BRAIDING MACHINE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 664,047, dated December 18, 1900. Application filed August 24., 1897. Serial No. 649,402. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, HENRY J ANsSEN and FERDINAND THUN, citizens of the United States, residing at Reading, county of Berks, State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Braiding-Machines,of which the following is a specification.

Our invention consists in certain improvements in braiding-machines, which are fully described in connection with the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

The novel construction of braid herein referred to as a product of our improved machine is fully described and claimed in a separate application filed by us January 11, 1900, Serial No. 1,030.

Figure 1 is a plan view, partly in section, of the main portion of a machine embodying our improvements. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is an enlarged plan view, and Fig. 4c an enlarged sectional elevation, of the transversely moving carrier mechanism. Figs. 5 and 6 are face views of the braid made by the within-described machine. Fig. 7 is a sectional view showing the relative location of such interwoven threads. Fig. 8 illustrates a modified construction of our additional carrier mechanism; and Figs. 9 and 10 indicate another modified arrangement.

A and B represent the bottom and top plates, respectively, of a braiding-machine of ordinary construction, between which are mounted the usual intermeshing series of carrier-driving gears C, the upper disks 0 of which engage and traverse bobbin-carriers D in the usual intersecting serpentine guidegrooves 19 b, which curve around the drivinggear spindles or posts 0.

The construction and operation of the parts referred to need not be more fully described, inasmuch as they are intended to represent a form of machine such as is commonly used in producing the ordinary braid, either flat or tubular.

The object of our presentimprovements is to provide for producing braid in which are interwoven additional threads, preferably of a different color from the main threads, so as to serve as a filling, whereby the body of the fabric is increased and an ornamental eifect produced on one face thereof. For this purpose we employ,in combination with the usual braiding machine mechanism already referred to, a second series of bobbin or thread carriers E. These latter, as shown in the main views of the drawings, are arranged to travel across the serpentine path I) of the first series of carriers by means of the following mechanism: The base-plate e of each carrier E is toothed at e to form a rack, which is guided in radially-arranged ways F F, one of which is located directly above the gear 0, while the other is outside of the serpentine groove 12 and in alinement with the first, the two sections being separated so as to permit the free passage between them of the first series of carriers D. To give motion to the carriers E, we make the posts or spindles O hollow, and pass through the same rods or shafts G, Figs. 3 and 4, each carrying at its upper end a pinion g, which meshes with a rack-engaging pinion H, whereby the base-plate e of the carriers E is moved inward or outward in the guideways E. A similar pinion mechanism g H is provided in connection with the outside guideway F, to which pinions the same movement is transmitted and which opcrate upon the toothed carrier-plate as the latter is moved from one guideway F into the other F across the intervening space through which the series of braiding-carriers D pass. As shown, the required simultaneous movement of the pinion mechanism is produced by means of a toothed quadrant I, located under the plate A, which meshes with pinions g and 9 Figs. 1 and 4, on the lower ends of the shafts Gand G',respectively, and to which a rocking motion is given by means of a suitable crank connected to an operating-shaft J. A regular reciprocating motion is thus given to the carriers E in a radial direction and across the path 6 of the carriers D, thus weaving the threads carried by the reciprocating bobbins into one face of the double braid produced by the action of the braiding-carriers, thereby increasing the body of the fabric and at the same time producinga figured design.

In Figs. 5, 6, and 7 the filling-threads, which are indicated by the letter 7c, are at different points inside or outside of the braidingthreads of the outer face, as determined by the movement of the carriers E, while the other face has the same appearance and texture as ordinary braid, which latter may of course be produced without variation on the same in achine by merely throwing out of service the extra carriers E.

In Fig. 1 it will be noticed that two of the guideways F F are represented as provided each with two instead of one transverselymoving bobbin-carriers, which are marked, respectively, E and E, these being arranged to move in opposite directions across the serpentine way I) h of the braiding carriers, thereby increasing the number of fillingthreads thus woven into the braid and correspondingly modifying the effect.

In the modified construction indicated in Fig. 8 the shafts G G are given a vertical instead of rotary motion and carry racks g 9 which operate double pinions H H which are arranged to engage the toothed base-plate of the carrier E, so as to move the latter to and fro in the manner previously described.

In the further modified construction indicated in Figs. 9 and 10 similar shafts G G are employed, carrying racks g 9, through which the toothed baseplates e of the carriers E are moved across the paths of the threads 2, extending from the braiding-carriers D to the take-up mechanism, the guides for the carriers E consisting in this construction of bars F F supported on brackets m. m a sufficient distance above the grooved plate B, as shown.

It is evident that other modifications may also be devised without departing from the spirit of our invention, and we do not therefore desire to limit ourselves to the particular construction described.

What we claim is 1. The combination with the grooved bedplate of a braiding-machine and with bobbincarriers guided therein in intersecting serpentine courses of other bobbin-carriers arranged to cross one of said serpentine courses between the intersections of said courses substantially as set forth.

2. The combination with the grooved bedplate of a braiding-machine and with bobbincarriers guided therein in intersecting serpen tine courses of carrier-d riving gears th erefor having hollow shafts around which the intersecting courses curve, and other bobbincarriers guided transversely to said courses between the intersections thereof, with mechanism for operating the latter through said hollow shafts substantially as set forth.

3. The combination with the grooved bedplate of a braiding-machine and with bobbincarriers guided therein in intersecting serpentine courses of other bobbin-carriers having toothed base-plates, guides for each of said toothed base-plates and separate pinions for successively engaging the same located respectively inside and outside of one of said serpentine courses between the intersections and jointly operated to traverse the carriers across the latter substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof we aifix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY JANSSEN. FERDINAND THUN.

Witnesses:

W. Z. DECK, ELMER W. DEoK. 

